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Yeah, not exactly being a rodeo clown, I was trying to avoid that and cut to the underlying issues. For sure we need to continue to build more civility, the lack of which has implications beyond being jaded in terms of confusing the political issues, but one can sure get jaded with it as well, I mean how long have we been putting up with this petty demagoguery going back to old Party days in the 70s. It's gotten real old. Take Care. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Mark Lause <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with most of what you're saying, Tom. > > However, jadedness has nothing to do with it. Either an argument is > fair or it's not. Personalities and motives are distractions. > Ducking issues, misrepresenting positions, etc. accomplish nothing > because it fails to advance our collective understanding...or the > potential for our collective understanding. > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
